DFI Dates
2024
Term 4
Online DFI - Wednesday, starting Friday 11 October, with session 4 on Tuesday 29 October
2025
Registrations for 2025 will open at the beginning of Term 4 2024
Term 1
Online DFI - Thursday, starting 13 February
Term 2
Online DFI - Tuesday, starting 29 April
Online DFI - Thursday, starting 1 May
Term 3
Online DFI - Wednesday, starting 16 July
Online DFI - Friday, starting 18 July
Term 4
Online DFI - Wednesday starting 8 October, with session 4 on Tuesday 28 October.
About The Digital Fluency Intensive
In 2017 the Manaiakalani Principals in partnership with the Manaiakalani Education Trust decided to pilot a new approach to supporting effective teachers in their quest to become "At Home in Digital World". All our 3000+ learners now live in a digital world, and the majority of them are now being educated in digital learning environments, so it is essential that:
Our teachers are supported to acquire fluency using the basic tools our young people use for learning
Our teachers are supported to acquire fluency using the basic tools required for effective teaching, planning, assessment and professional learning
Our teachers are supported to understand how digital technologies used effectively can have a significant impact on accelerating achievement outcomes
Our teachers are supported to understand how the Manaiakalani pedagogy and kaupapa has been co-constructed over more than a decade to maximise the impact of effective teaching and learning in a digital learning environment.
Manaiakalani teachers (including those across our Network Schools) have the opportunity to join a professional learning group to learn together, following a programme designed to meet these four key goals. The Digital Fluency Intensive releases them from class one day a week for nine consecutive weeks. The cluster calendar is populated with the dates for each cohort.